scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW RUMINATION SCALE

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
Stanislava Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
Dysfunctional Impulsivity ◽  
Positive Time ◽  
Negative Time

A new Brief Rumination Scale was constructed to measure rumination as repetitive thoughts about negative past events and regrets. Its good psychometric properties were established in a heterogeneous Bulgarian sample of 1274 healthy individuals – one-factor structure, high enough internal consistency, proven convergent, discriminant and intentional validity. It was found that rumination decreased with past positive time orientation and present hedonistic time orientation. Rumination increased with past negative time orientation and proneness to dysfunctional impulsivity. Regarding social differences in rumination, it was found that the participants whose income was above the medium (but not the highest one) and who were living in cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants were more prone to moderate rumination than expected – they emphasized on unfavorable events in their past and expressed regret about more omitted opportunities in their life. A brief, valid and reliable measure of rumination would shorten the process of conducting a study and would make it more probable the subjects to agree to participate in the study in this way enriching the scientific knowledge. Keywords: dysfunctional impulsivity, rumination measurement, scale development, time orientation

Assessing a Norwegian Translation of the Organizational Climate Measure

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm ◽  
Jon Anders Lone ◽  
Cato A. Bjørkli ◽  
Pål Ulleberg ◽  
Thomas Hoff
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Competing Values ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
International Service ◽  
Stable Factor ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Preliminary Support

This study investigated the Norwegian translation of the Organizational Climate Measure developed by Patterson and colleagues. The Organizational Climate Measure is a global measure of organizational climate based on Quinn and Rohrbaugh's competing values model. The survey was administered to a Norwegian branch of an international service sector company ( N = 555). The results revealed satisfactory internal reliability and interrater agreement for the 17 scales, and confirmatory factor analysis supported the original factor structure. The findings gave preliminary support for the Organizational Climate Measure as a reliable measure with a stable factor structure, and indicated that it is potentially useful in the Norwegian context.

scholarly journals Differences in the Psychological Profiles of Elite and Non-elite Athletes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petar Mitić ◽  
Jasmina Nedeljković ◽  
Željka Bojanić ◽  
Mirjana Franceško ◽  
Ivana Milovanović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
National Team ◽  
Talent Selection ◽  
Positive Time ◽  
Negative Time

One of the main goals of sport psychology is to identify those psychological factors that are relevant for sport performance as well as possibilities of their development. The aim of the study was to determine whether the set of specific psychological characteristics [generalized self-efficacy, time perspective, emotional intelligence (EI), general achievement motivation, and personality dimensions] makes the distinction between athletes based on their (non)-participation in the senior national team, that is, their belonging to the subsample of elite or non-elite athletes depending on this criterion. According to the group centroids it can be said that elite athletes are characterized by a positive high score in self-efficacy, emotionality, present fatalistic time perspective, past positive time perspective, and openness to experience. They are also characterized by low past negative time perspective, emotional competence, and future time perspective. Non-elite athletes have the opposite traits. The results have been discussed in the context of their application in the process of talent selection and development in sport as well as the development of life skills in athletes.

Developing and Validating a Scale for Multidimensional Attributes of Honeymoon Tourism

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 1199-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pipatpong Fakfare ◽  
Jin-Soo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Extended View ◽  
Attributes Data

This study aims to identify and validate a scale for multidimensional attributes of honeymoon tourism. Although having a romantic experience is an important reason why newlywed couples go on a honeymoon, multidimensional attributes that affect honeymoon tourist experience have yet to be fully explored in the honeymoon tourism literature. This study offers an extended view of honeymoon tourism from the perspective of multidimensional attributes. Data were collected through a survey among international honeymoon tourists. A total of 565 usable samples were collected in Phuket, Thailand, via convenience sampling. Thereafter, refinement and validation of the measurement scale were conducted. Findings indicate that the multidimensional attributes are represented by a nine-factor structure. The findings are expected to extend and enrich the honeymoon tourism literature. Theoretical and managerial implications were also discussed.

Developing a Multidimensional Measurement Scale for Diaspora Tourists’ Motivation

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Elvis Otoo ◽  
Seongseop (Sam) Kim ◽  
Youngjoon Choi
Keyword(s):  
Scale Development ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Multidimensional Measurement ◽  
Development Procedure ◽  
Validity Tests

Despite its increased recognition among tourism planners and destination governments, a lacuna exists regarding the motivation of diaspora tourists travelling to a destination they regard as an ancestral homeland. Thus, in the current research, we seek to develop and validate a scale that measures the motivations of diaspora tourists. The result of a rigorous seven-stage scale development procedure generates a five-factor structure for diaspora tourists’ motivations. The scale is successfully verified through various reliability and validity tests. This multidimensional scale of diaspora tourist motivations contributes to our understanding of the nature of diaspora tourism.

scholarly journals Factor Structure of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in Persons with Chronic Diseases, Elderly and Healthy Individuals

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arndt Büssing ◽  
Daniela Recchia ◽  
Harold Koenig ◽  
Klaus Baumann ◽  
Eckhard Frick
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Healthy Individuals

Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Index of Teaching Stress—Short Form (ITS—SF)

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 763-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cleliazurlo ◽  
Daniela Pes ◽  
Rosaria Romano
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Teacher Stress ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

WITHDRAWAL NOTICE for Cleliazurlo, M., Pes, D., & Romano, R. (2015). Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Index of Teaching Stress— Short Form (ITS—SF). Psychological Reports, 117(3), 763–780. DOI: 10.2466/ 08.PR0.117c24z5 The article has been withdrawn at the request of the author. The author contacted the journal to inform them that PARS, the rightsholder of the Index of Teaching Stress (“ITS”), expressed concern at the author’s unauthorized creation and publication of a short form version of the ITS. Although the author had received permission to validate an Italian version of ITS, the rights holder did not permit the development and publication of the resulting short form, and requested the article be withdrawn from access. If you have any questions about this, please contact SAGE. This study analyses factor structure and psychometric properties of the Italian short version of the Index of Teaching Stress–Short Form (ITS–SF). The original version of the ITS (90 items) was submitted to 567 teachers randomly drawn from a cross-section of school levels. Confirmatory factor analysis to check the factor structure was unsatisfactory, and Cronbach's α (.98) indicated a redundancy of items. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted for each section of the test and cross-loading items were eliminated. The resulting ITS–SF consists of 43 items, tapping eight meaningful and adequately reliable dimensions substantially corresponding to all dimensions measured by the original version of the ITS. The Italian short version of the Index of Teaching Stress constitutes a reliable measure of teacher stress in educative interactions.

scholarly journals The reliability of pseudoneglect is task dependent

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Grace Mitchell ◽  
Julie M Harris ◽  
Sarah Benstock ◽  
Justin Ales
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Sensory Modality ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Line Bisection ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Line Bisection Task

Bisection tasks that require individuals to identify the midpoint of a line are often used to assess the presence of biases to spatial attention in both healthy and patient populations. These tasks have helped to uncover a phenomenon called pseudoneglect, a bias towards the left-side of space in healthy individuals. First identified in the tactile domain, pseudoneglect has been subsequently demonstrated in other sensory modalities such as vision. Despite this, the specific reliability of pseudoneglect within individuals across tasks and time has been investigated very little. In this study, we investigated the reliability of response bias within individuals across four separate testing sessions and during three line bisection tasks: landmark, line bisection and tactile rod bisection. Strong reliability was expected within individuals across task and session. Pseudoneglect was found when response bias was averaged across all tasks, for the entire sample. However, individual data showed biases to both left and right, with some participants showing no clear bias, demonstrating individual differences in bias. Significant, cross-session within-individual reliability was found for the landmark and tactile rod bisection tasks respectively, but no significant reliability was observed for the line bisection task. Alongside this, no significant cross-task within-individual reliability was observed. These results highlight the inconsistent nature of pseudoneglect within individuals, particularly across sensory modality. They also provide strong support for the use of the landmark task as the most reliable measure of pseudoneglect.

A Brief, Reliable Measure of Negative Attitudes toward Atheists

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1161-1162
Author(s):  
Emily Bloesch ◽  
Gordon B. Forbes ◽  
Leah E. Adams-Curtis
Keyword(s):  
College Women ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
College Men ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Negative Attitudes

The development and factor structure of a brief, 5-item, measure of negative attitudes toward atheists is described with a sample of 176 college men and 231 college women. The single factor was reliable; the internal consistency was .83; and face validity was high. Although other forms of reliability and validity should be pursued, the scale appears to be suitable for research on negative attitudes toward atheists.

scholarly journals Monsoon onset and reservoir build up- A case Study for Hirakud

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-320
Author(s):  
O. N. DHAR ◽  
S.S. NANDARGI
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Thunderstorm Activity ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Positive Time ◽  
Negative Time ◽  
Onset Of Monsoon

Onset of monsoon for each year of the period from 1961 to 1986 over the Upper Mahanadi basin has been studied taking into consideration the sharp increase in water levels of the Hirakud reservoir. This study has shown that .there are positive and negative time-lags in the arrival of monsoon run off into the reservoir. It has been seen that positive time lags are due to antecedent condition of the basin before the onset of monsoon while negative time-lag appears to be due to pre-monsoon thunderstorm activity which causes reservoir levels to increase before the onset of monsoon. Attempt has been made to discuss all these cases briefly. It has been seen that on  a majority of occasions monsoon runoff has reached the reservoir with a time-lag of 1 to 4 days.  

scholarly journals The influence of time attitudes on alcohol-related attitudes, behaviors and subjective life expectancy in early adolescence

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Eugene Wells ◽  
Grant Morgan ◽  
Frank C. Worrell ◽  
Harry Sumnall ◽  
Michael Thomas McKay
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
First Year ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Time Attitudes ◽  
Positive Time ◽  
Degree Of Stability ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Negative Time

The goal of the present study is to examine the stability of time attitudes profiles across a one-year period as well as the association between time attitudes profiles and several variables. These variables include attitudes towards alcohol, context of alcohol use, consumption of a full drink, and subjective life expectancy. We assessed the reliability and validity of time attitudes scores at baseline (mean age 12.5 years) and Wave 2 (mean age 13.5 years), the viability of time attitudes profiles at both time points, and the degree of stability in profile membership in Wave 2. A total of four latent profiles were identified (Positives, Ambivalents, Negatives, and Negative-Futures). Positives had higher scores on positive time attitude, Ambivalents did not report strong attitudes towards any of the time periods, Negatives had higher scores on negative time attitudes, and Negative-Futures were similar to Negatives, but tended to higher scores on both positive and negative time attitude for the future. Results showed that participants staying in the same time attitude profile across the first year of high school ranged from 33% to 50%. Transition to more negative profiles explained the instability, and those transitions were associated with less favorable outcomes. Having a Positive profile was associated with safer attitudes towards alcohol, lower reported uses of alcohol, and higher self-reported probability of surviving to at least the age of 35.

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